Ophelia Comes to Town
During a production of “Hamlet”, the withdrawn lead actor and the girl playing Ophelia, who has just escaped a life of drugs and prostitution, spark an unlikely and low-key romance.
Stars and the Water Carriers
The images from the Tour de France in the television production Eddy Merckx in the Vincinity of a Cup of Coffee may be seen as a small sketch for the…
Chinese Ping-Pong
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 1970, partly during the Chinese players’ exhibition tour in Denmark immediately after the SOC. First of…
Bedroom Mazurka
Ophelia’s Flowers
Jørgen Leth’s experimental take on Ophelia’s madness scene in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
The Perfect Human
An elegant and humorous film—in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise—spotlights “The Perfect Human,” a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.